135 lines
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135 lines
6.8 KiB
Markdown
# Ported widgets
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The GTK widgets that used to run as a separate AGS process are now plugins
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inside the shell. A panel opens over IPC into a process that is already running
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rather than starting a second toolkit, and `ags` is no longer installed or
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autostarted.
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## Where each one went
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| Was | Is | Note |
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| `QuickSettings.tsx` (523 lines) | `shell/plugins/panels/quick-settings/` | split across 9 files, none over 250 lines |
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| `SysMonitor.tsx` (142) | `shell/plugins/panels/sysmon/` | CPU, memory, disk, temperature |
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| `Notifications.tsx` (160) | `shell/plugins/notification-center/` | reads the notification service's own history files |
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| `WallPicker.tsx` (106) | the existing image picker | `blob-wallpaper-set --menu` now calls `blob-menu-images`, so wallpapers get the image grid instead of a text list |
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| `ThemePicker.tsx` (178) | the menu and `blob-theme-switcher` | the shell already had a theme switcher; a second picker was duplicate surface |
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| `ClaudeUsage.tsx` (372) | dropped | it existed to read agent usage records, and the agents feature is gone |
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| `Media.tsx` (104) | dropped | `SHOW_DESKTOP_MEDIA` was already false, and the quick settings media row covers it |
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| `WidgetCard.tsx` (22) | `Ui/Card.qml`, `Ui/CardHeader.qml`, `Ui/StatRow.qml` | shared, so no plugin repeats the card |
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| `style.css` (759) | `Commons/Style.qml` tokens | see below |
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## The look
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`ags/style.css` was the visual identity worth keeping: square corners, a 2px
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border, and an `alpha(background, 0.6)` fill. Those are now named tokens on
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`Style` - `cardBorderWidth`, `cardRadius`, `cardFillAlpha`, `cardBorderAlpha`,
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`panelFillAlpha` - so every ported panel reads the same numbers instead of
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repeating literals.
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The CSS was written against pywal's `@color0`, `@color4` and `@color5` aliases.
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`blob-theme-color` resolves `color4` to blue and `color5` to magenta, so
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`Commons/Color.qml` now exposes `blue` and `magenta` with that same cascade,
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falling back to `accent` for themes that define neither. `color0` is
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`background`, which Color already had.
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## Opening them
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| Panel | Opened by |
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| --- | --- |
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| Quick settings | left-click the bar clock, or `Super + Ctrl + Q` |
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| Notification centre | left-click the bar bell; right-click silences notifications, and the bell is crossed out while they are |
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| System monitor | `Super + Ctrl + M` |
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Both new bar click actions are already in `shell.json`. The system monitor had no
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bar entry point in the AGS setup either, so the keybinding is how it is reached.
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## Quick settings
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The control centre is centred on the screen, with the weather card to its left.
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Its tiles fill the card width in three columns, and every tile and card button
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draws a JetBrainsMono Nerd Font glyph over a light foreground fill with a thin
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border, so they read against the panel in any theme. An active tile takes the
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accent colour. The Wallpaper tile opens `blob.displays`, the Theme tile opens
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`blob theme menu`.
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## Notification centre
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`blob.notification-center` lists the notification history, newest first. A
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toast that expires unseen moves into history; a toast you close or click is
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deleted instead, so the centre only holds what you missed. The x on an entry
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removes it through `blob-shell notifications remove <file>`, the bell button
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toggles silencing, and the trash button clears the whole history with
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`blob-shell notifications clear`.
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## Deliberately not ported
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The tiles still poll shell commands the way the GTK widgets did - `pamixer` for
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volume, `brightnessctl` for brightness, `playerctl` for media - rather than
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binding to the shell's own audio, brightness and media services. Polling only
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runs while a panel is open, so the cost is bounded, but wiring these to the
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services is the obvious next refinement and would remove the last per-tick
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process spawns.
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## Display layout
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`blob.display-layout` arranges monitors. Opened with `Super + Shift + Ctrl + D`
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or the Blob menu's Display layout row.
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A scaled picture of the desktop, one draggable rectangle per monitor. Dropping
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one applies the new position immediately. Edges snap to a neighbour's edge
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within 60 logical pixels, so monitors end up touching exactly. Per-monitor
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controls: mode, scale, enable or disable, and mirror. The panel
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shrinks to fit the screen, and when a monitor reports more modes than fit, the
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controls scroll while the canvas and the apply buttons stay in view.
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**Scale options are filtered, not free.** Hyprland steps fractional scaling in
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1/120 and rejects a scale that does not land on a whole number of physical
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pixels on both axes. `DisplayModel.scaleIsValid` applies that rule, so only
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usable scales are offered. On a 1920x1080 panel that means 1.0 and 1.2 are
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adjacent with nothing between them, which is the constraint `hypr/monitors.lua`
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documents by hand.
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**Nothing is written to `monitors.lua`.** Every change goes through
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`hyprctl keyword monitor` and lasts until the config reloads or the session
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ends. "Reset to monitors.lua" runs `hyprctl reload` and makes the checked-in
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config authoritative again. To keep a layout, edit `monitors.lua` yourself -
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`blob display arrange list` prints the current layout in the exact keyword form,
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ready to copy.
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Rotation and primary-monitor selection are not implemented. `DisplayModel` reads
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`transform` and round-trips it, so a rotated monitor is drawn and preserved
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correctly, but nothing in the widget sets it.
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## Wallpapers
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`blob.displays` picks wallpapers. Opened with `Super + Alt + W`, the quick
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settings Wallpaper tile, or the Blob menu's Wallpaper row.
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A thumbnail grid of `~/wallpapers` that fits as many columns of at least 120px
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as the panel allows and stretches them to its full width, with a row of chips
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selecting the target:
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"All monitors" sets the global wallpaper through `blob-bg-set`, and a specific
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output assigns just that monitor through `blob-bg-monitor`, which symlinks the
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image under `~/.local/state/blob/backgrounds/<output>`. An output with its own
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wallpaper is marked with an asterisk.
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`blob.background` already drew one window per screen but pointed them all at the
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same image. It now resolves per screen: a monitor with an assignment shows it,
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and a monitor without one shows the global wallpaper. The crossfade machinery
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stays on the global path only, so an assigned monitor swaps without the reveal
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animation rather than risking that code.
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| Command | Does |
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| `blob bg set <image>` | set the global wallpaper |
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| `blob bg monitor <output> <image>` | assign a wallpaper to one monitor |
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| `blob bg monitor <output> --clear` | fall back to the global wallpaper |
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| `blob bg monitor --list` | show assignments |
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| `blob display arrange list` | print the layout as monitor keywords |
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| `blob display arrange apply <kw>` | apply a keyword now |
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| `blob display arrange reset` | reload, restoring monitors.lua |
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Both widgets share `Ui/Chip.qml`, `Ui/Card.qml` and `Ui/CardIconButton.qml`
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rather than carrying their own copies.
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